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Append/o

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Appendix

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-ectomy

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Surgical removal

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Spondyl/o, vertebr/o

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Spine

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Chir/o

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Hand

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-er, -ist

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One who

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-iatrician

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Practitioner

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-logist

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One who studies; specialist

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-iatricts, -iatry

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Medical profession or treatment

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cardi/o

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Heart

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Crin/o

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To secrete

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Dermat/o

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Skin

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Esthesi/o

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Feeling or sensation

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Gastr/o, enter/o

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Stomach, intestines

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Ger/a, ger/o, geront/o

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Elderly

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Gynec/o

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Female

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Immun/o

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Immune

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Ne/o, nat/o

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New, birth

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Neur/o

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Nerve

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Obstetr/o

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Midwife

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Onc/o

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Tumor

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21
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Ophthalm/o

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Eye

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Orth/o, ped/o

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Straight, child

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Ot/o, laryng/o

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Ear, larynx

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Path/o

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Disease

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25
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Ped/o

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Child/foot

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Radi/o

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Radiation or radius

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Rheumat/o

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Rheumatism

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Ur/o

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Urinary tract or urine

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Melan/o

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Black

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30
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Oma

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Tumor

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31
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-centesis

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Surgical puncture to aspirate or remove fluid

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32
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-ectomy

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Excision (surgical removal or cutting out)

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33
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-lysis

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Process of loosening, freeing, or destroying

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34
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-pexy

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Surgical fixation (fastening in a fixed position)

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35
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-plasty

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Surgical repair

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36
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-rrhaphy

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Suture(uniting a wound by stitches)

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37
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-scopy

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Visual exam w/ a lighted instrument

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38
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-stomy

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Formation of an opening

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39
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-tome

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An instrument used for cutting

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40
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-tomy

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Incision (cutting into tissue)

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41
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-tripsy

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Surgical crushing

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Amni/o

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Fet/o

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Micro

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-tripsy

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Surgical crushing

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Extra

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Corpor/o

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Aden/o

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Angi/o

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Append/o, appendic/o

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Bi/o

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Life or living

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Blephar/o

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Cerebr/o, encephal/o

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Chir/o

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Col/o

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Colon or large intestine

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Faci/o

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Hepat/o

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Mamm/o, mast/o

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Muscul/o, my/o

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Myel/o

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Bone marrow or spinal cord

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Oste/o

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Pulm/o, pulmon/o, pneum/o, pneumon/o

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Tonsil/o

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Trache/o

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Vas/o

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Vessel; ductus deferens

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-Algia, -dynia

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-cele

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-ectasia, -ectasis

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-edema

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-emesis

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-emia

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Condition of the blood

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-is, -iasis

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-malacia

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Soft, softening

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-mania

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Excessive preoccupation

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-megaly

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Enlargement

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-oid

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Resembling

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-osis

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-penia

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Deficiency

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-phobia

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Abnormal fear

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-ptosis

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Sagging (prolapse)

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-rrhage, -rrhagia

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Excessive bleeding or hemorrhage

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-rrhea

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Flow or discharge

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-rrhexis

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-spasm

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Twitching, cramp

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-stasis

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Stopping, controlling

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Carcin/o

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-able, -ible

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Capable of, able to

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-ase

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-eum, -ium

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-iac

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One who suffers

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-opia

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-ose

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-y

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State or condition

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Adip/o, lip/o

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Amyl/o

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Glyc/o

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Hemat/o

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Lact/o

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Muc/o

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Prote/o, protein/o

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Pyr/o

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